Carpet-beater.



No. 7I2,984. Patented Novi 4, i902.

` F. A. WALKER.

ARPlaTv BEATER.' (Appxicgeion filed may 24, 1902-.)

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UNITED STATES.

'PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND A. WALKER, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

CARPET-BEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,984, dated November 4, 1902. Y Application filed May 24,1902. Serial No. 108,874. (No modele) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND A. WALKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented new and useful Improvemen t-s in Oarpet-Beaters,of which the following is a specication.

Thuis invention relates to a carpet-beater; and the object of the same is to provide a simple and effective device of this class formed of Wire of a resilient nature and having a beating-head embodying a structure which gives it a more extended beating operation and 'adapted to engage a greater surface, whereby dust and dirt will be more quickly removed from a carpet or other device.

The invention consists in the construction 'and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of a beater embodying the features of the invention. Fig. 2 isa longitudinal vertical section through the handle and stem of the improved beater and showing a portion of the head in plan view. Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of a portion of the head and stem, showing the manner of confining the parts of the head extending from the stem.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral l designates a stem havinga suitable handle or grip 2 secured theretoat one end and a beating-head 3 at the opposite end. The head comprises two open loops or frames 4 and 5, both of the same contour and the frame 5 smaller than the frame 4 and located within the latter. The loops or frames 4 and 5 diverge from the points of connection with or continuation from the stem l toward their outerl free ends 6 and 7, and the latter ends are formed with entrant bends 8 and 9. l

There are many methods of constructing the improved beater; but one of the most economical modes of producing the same consists in'provding amain supporting-wire lO, around which double wires 1l are closely wound to produce the stem 1, as clearly shown by Fig. 2, the supporting-Wire l0 forming av core for the stem and with the wound double Wire thereon produces a strong and durable flexible stem. It will be understood that two of the Wires 1l are employed to form the loops 4 and 5 comprised in the head 3. The double wires are continued in loop form from the outer terminal of the stem to produce the loops or frames 4 and 5, comprised in the construction of the head 3, and to maintain the loops or frames 4 and 5 in proper structural condition relatively to the stem the outer eX tremity of the Wire lO is wound around the inner terminals of the loops or frames 4 and 5, as at 12.

In the operation of the improved beater it Ais grasped by the handle or grip 2 and successively and rapidly brought into; contact with the carpet or other material to be cleaned.

The formation of the head is of material advantage in view of the fact that a greater surface of the carpet or other material will be engaged thereby, owing to the inner loop or frame 5 and the entrant bends 8 and 9 at the centers of the free ends of both loops or frames 4 and 5. It is obvious that if the inner loop or frame 5 were not used the surface of the carpet or other material struck exclusively by the outer larger loop or frame 4 would notY be as thoroughly relieved of dust and dirt as when the said inner loop or frame conjointly operates with the outer loop or frame. It is also obvious that the form of the head may be varied without departing :from the principle of the invention and, furthermore, that changes in the minor details may be made.

Having thus fully described the invention,

what is claimed as new isl. A carpetbeater comprising a stem hav ing a single supporting-wire and double wires wrapped around said stem and terminally formed into loops, the one loop being disposed Within the other andv both loops providing a beating-head.

2. A carpet-beater comprising a ste'mhaving a handle and a beating-head, the said head being composed of two looped 'frames yieldingly held by the stem and one located within the other and each free to move independently of the other, the outer free ends of theframe heilig bent inwardly at the cen- IOO ter solely in curved planes to increase the l min'als of theloops to hold the latter, and a I beating-surface of the head. handle connected to the rear end of the stem. 3. A carpet-beater comprising a stem made In testimony whereof I affix my signature up of a single supporting-Wire and double in presence of two Witnesses. y 5 wires twisted therearound and formed into terminal loops, the one loop being smaller FERDINAND A WALKER' than the other and freely movable Within the lVitnesses: larger one, the front terminal of the support- A. ALFRED CHALLGREN, ing-Wire being Wound around the inner ter- RICHARD A. CHALLGREN. 

